276 A, FE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
had similar colors, radial rows of tubercles on the disk, and verruce 
on the upper part of the column from which water could be ejected, 
as in erucifera, with which Lesueur himself compared it. 
However, MceMurrich justly remarks that Lesueur described the 
disk tubercles as lobed or branched, which has not been observed in 
this species. But his attempt to explain away the verruce of the 
column as due to an error of observation on Lesneur’s part, he being 
supposed to have mistaken accidental wrinkles of the smooth-walled 
Actinotryx for verruce, seems to me very improbable. They must 
have been conspicuous, for they not only ejected water, but sug- 
gested the name of the species. 
Moreover Lesueur was an able and careful observer, well-trained 
in zoology for that period, and an excellent zoological artist, as his 
published figures show. In fact, he exceeded most zoologists of his 
time in the attention to all minor details of the objects he described, 
as is shown, for instance, in his figures of the anatomy of Zoanthus, 
giving correctly the unusual arrangement of the mesenteries. 
Hence I think we must allow that the species described by Lesueur 
had distinct suckers or verruce on the column, of which some were 
perforated, and that the disk tubercles were lobed or branched. 
Moreover, he speaks of the marginal tentacles as large. 
Hence it seems to me quite unreasonable to assume, as MeMurrich 
does, that he had before him Actinotryx Sancti-thome, which has a 
remarkably smooth and lubricous column, and only very small mar- 
ginal tentacles. It also has a very different style of coloration. 
Moreover its peculiar form surely would have attracted Lesueur’s 
attention, as being quite unlike any species he had previously 
described. 
However, if we eliminate these two species, I do not know any 
other West Indian species, described by modern writers, to which 
his description could apply. Perhaps it was a species not yet redis- 
covered. We are certainly not yet acquainted with all the West 
Indian actinians. 
Actinotryx sancti-thome (Duch. and Mich.) Figures 121, 122, 125. 
Actinotryx Saneti-Thome Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antill., p. 45, pl. vii, fig. 
2, 1860; Andres, p. 509, 1860; Duerden, Jamaican Actinaria, part ii, pp. 
148-154, pl. x, figs. 83-6 (general), pl. xi, figs. 3, 4 (anatomy), pl. xii, fig. 3 
(anatomy), 1900. 
Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., x, p. 555, pl. Ixviii, fig. 5, 1900. 
Rhodactis Sancti-Thome MecMurrich, Actinaria Bahamas, p. 42, pl. i, fig. 9, 
pl. iv, figs. 2, 3 (anatomy), 1889. Duerden, Actinaria around Jamaica, p. 
451, 1898. 
